Regional News

(Trinidad Express) – Two people have died from the influenza A/H1N1 virus, while another death is still being investigated, Minister of Health Jerry Narace said on Wednesday.

CARACAS (Reuters) – President Hugo Chavez’s government said on Wednesday it was taking control of a landmark hotel mangaged by Hilton on Margarita island in another nationalization by socialist-run Venezuela.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – Residents of the normally quiet community of Tower Isle in St Mary awoke to a gruesome discovery on Wednesday.

St Kitts court battle Kittitian Prime Minister Denzil Douglas says an ongoing court battle over proposed constituency boundary changes threatens to undermine the country’s democratic process.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Allen Stanford, the alleged  swindler who is being held in solitary confinement in a federal  jail, fell ill during a hearing yesterday where a judge  denied the U.S.

(Jamaican Observer) Two Jamaican men were slapped with life sentences for the grotesque murder of a Jamaican mother of two, Dorcas Rhule, in a British Virgin Islands (BVI) court last week.

(Barbados Nation) A father of eight was shot and killed by intruders as he closed up at his workplace early Sunday morning.

(Jamaica Observer) Just over 90 per cent of adult Jamaicans surveyed hold the view that a foetus is a human being, a poll conducted by Don Anderson for a pro-life group has found.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados and Antigua and Barbuda have been bearing the brunt of regional migration.

(Barbados Nation) LIAT (1974) Limited is in line for a US$54 million upgrade of its aircraft fleet.

(Trinidad Express) The State has been forking out an estimated TT$25 million per year to settle hundreds of judicial matters brought by members of the public against police and prisons officers.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Former Cash Plus boss, Carlos Hill, was on Friday slapped with 15 additional fraud charges and could face trial in the Home Circuit Court, where the penalty is more severe.

-influx of Guyanese, Venezuelans seen (Trinidad Express) Chief economist and director of research at the Central Bank Alvin Hilaire has warned that the immigration situation in Trinidad and Tobago could face some serious challenges, given the fact that this country’s economy was still doing better than others in the region, and as such, workers from all over the region could begin flocking here.

…as consumption rises Jamaica Gleaner) Less than two years after Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Dr Christopher Tufton urged Jamaicans to make greater use of cassava, heavy demands for the tuber have sent agro processors scurrying for a duty-free licence.

(Jamaica Observer) Head of the delegation of the European Commission to Jamaica, Ambassador Marco Mazzocchi-Alemanni, Wednesday criticised the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) for the long time it is taking to implement a $1.3 billion poverty reduction programme, funded by the EU.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – How stable can a nation like Haiti  be, where U.N.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica on Wednesday received vital advice from one of the leading personalities in the fight against the Italian Mafia, which came amidst reports that the two countries are working together to fight crime here.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – A would-be hijacker who held  more than 180 people at gunpoint aboard a Canadian charter jet  in Jamaica in April was jailed for 20 years yesterday.  

(Jamaica Gleaner) Hugh Wildman, the liquidator of the unregulated investment firm Cash Plus Limited, and his team have discovered US$25 million (J$2.2 billion) that Carlos Hill and his brother Bertram are suspected to have tucked away in a Swiss bank in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

(Barbados Nation) Educator and entertainer Mac Fingall has identified the minibus, dancehall and gang cultures as issues fostering disorder in Barbados In a fiery mood as he and other entertainers signed onto Crime Stoppers Barbados at the corporate offices of Guardian General, Collymore Rock, St Michael, on Tuesday, Fingall pointed to those subculture elements as signs of impending disaster in the society.